OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Interrogating the guiding principles for a person with dementia	15
Use of the least intrusive coercion at Danish psychiatric wards: A register-based cohort study of 131,632 first and subsequent coercive episodes within 35,812 admissions	13
Editorial Board	12
Innovations in violence risk assessment: What aviation can teach us about assessing and managing risk for rare and serious outcomes	11
Editorial Board	10
Does adolescent drug use belong on the antisocial spectrum? Mediating the drug–crime connection with cognitive impulsivity	10
An antisocial alchemy: Psychopathic traits as a moderator of the different forms and functions of aggression in delinquency and conduct disorder among youth	10
Editorial Board	8
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland	8
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony	8
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents	7
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	7
Insights into involuntary hospital admission procedures for psychiatric patients: A 3-year retrospective analysis of police records	7
Self-binding directives under the new Dutch Law on Compulsory Mental Health Care: An analysis of the legal framework and a proposal for reform	7
Editorial Board	7
The p factor, crime, and criminal justice: A criminological study of Caspi et al.'s general psychopathology general theory	6
The efficacy of CBT based interventions to sexual offenders: A systematic review of the last decade literature	6
Coercive measures in disability and mental health care services: Mechanical restraints from a bioethical and legal perspective in Spain	6
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	6
Traumatic residue, mediated remembering and video evidence of sexual violence: A case study	5
Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law	5
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	5
Which diagnoses and arguments regarding severe mental disorder do forensic psychiatric experts in Sweden consider in different cases? A qualitative vignette study	5
The dangers of using diagnoses outside of established psychiatric nosology in the courtroom: Analysis and discussion of current Swiss legal precedent from a medical perspective	5
The decision-making process in Swedish forensic psychiatric investigations	5

SIDMA as a criterion for psychiatric compulsion: An analysis of compulsory treatment orders in Scotland	5
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives	4
Global prevalence of borderline personality disorder and self-reported symptoms of adults in prison: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
“You feed and water a rose bush and eventually it blossoms”: Constructions of self-transformation among mental health court defendants	4
A scoping review of the forensic psychiatric expertise for compulsory treatment application in Brazil	4
A special type of homicide-suicide: A retrospective study of the characteristics of extended suicide	4
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles	4
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983	4
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	4
New technology, psychiatry, and the law: Panic, prudence, possibility	4
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	3
Assessment of suicide probability and related factors in male incarcerated adolescents; a sample of reformatory center in Turkey	3
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey	3
Coercive interventions under the new Dutch mental health law: Towards a CRPD-compliant law?	3
Editorial Board	3
The contribution of psychopathic traits and substance use in the prediction of recidivism of sexual offenders	3
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	3
Editorial Board	3
Hospital break. An eight-year review of escapes and absconds from two high security forensic centers	3
Distributed rights protection: The 2000 Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults and the challenge of securing fundamental rights across borders	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
A shifting paradigm? A scoping review of the factors influencing recovery and rehabilitation in recent forensic research	3
The influence of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on the European court of human rights in the area of mental health law: Divergence and unexplored potential	3
Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion	3
Police-mental health partnerships and persons with severe mental illness: An exploratory study of perceived risk and use of force	3
Editorial Board	3
Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law	2
Dual harm: Violent behaviour to others and self-harm behaviour in adults compulsorily admitted to a Dutch psychiatric hospital	2
An empirical study of actions on custodianship in Hungary	2
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	2
The association between clinicians' initial judgments of feigning and outcomes on symptom validity measures among pretrial forensic psychiatric inpatients	2
International law and mental health evaluations at Guantanamo: Is medical repatriation a solution for most detainees?	2
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	2
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	2
Individual liberty, safety and police liabilities under the mental health (care and treatment) act	2
Mental health and sentencing: How are judicial decisions made in light of the judgement of R v Vowles?	2
Control in the community: A qualitative analysis of the experience of persons on conditional discharge in Hong Kong	2
Special criminal sanctions for offenders with mental disorders: Tendencies and challenges in Bulgaria and Norway	2
What place has ‘capacity’ in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?	2
The experience of people with psychosocial disabilities of living independently and being included in the community in war-affected settings: A review of the literature	2
Restricted patients in New Zealand: A failed social experiment with a hybrid form of civil/forensic compulsory mental health treatment	2
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	2
Psychometric properties of the Parma Scale for the treatment evaluation of offenders with mental disorder: A new instrument for routine outcome monitoring in forensic psychiatric settings	2
The CRPD and mental health law reform in Scotland	2
A descriptive analysis of sentencing decisions by the Canadian criminal justice system of people with intellectual disabilities convicted with sexual offences	2
Violence risk assessment for young adults receiving treatment for early psychosis	2
Eyes wide open: A systematic review of the association between insomnia and aggression in forensic contexts	2
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	2
Restrictive measure reduction in psychiatric wards: A snapshot of China's mental health law reform under the new era of disability rights convention	2

Antisocial personality disorder and determinants among prisoners in South Gondar zone correctional institutions, Northwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study	2
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders	2
Effectiveness of a contact-based anti-stigma intervention for police officers	1
(Un)blurred lines? Sex, disability, and the dynamic boundaries of mental capacity law	1
Editorial Board	1
Perceived fairness as main determinant of patients' satisfaction with care during psychiatric hospitalisation: An observational study	1
A scoping review of case law relating to support and treatment for people with Prader-Willi Syndrome	1
Police use of force standards and mental health crises in the United States: Identifying research and policymaking targets	1
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals	1
Risk factors for involuntary admission in a Romanian patient sample	1
Perspectives on the eligibility criteria for euthanasia for mental suffering caused by psychiatric disorder under the Belgian Euthanasia Law: A qualitative interview study among mental healthcare work	1
Editorial Board	1
Experts' decision-making processes in Swedish forensic psychiatric investigations: A case vignette study	1
Medicalisation and participation in legal capacity determinations in Chile	1
Criminal responsibility evaluations: Benchmarking in different countries	1
Efficacy of outpatient treatment of sex offenders	1
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte	1
Means of restraint in residential care when there is no acute danger. Time for the European committee on the prevention of torture to set the standard	1
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and the criminal justice system: A guide for legal professionals	1
Implications for mental health workforce strategy, professional training and supervision of more widespread adoption of the multi-professional Responsible Clinician role: Results of a qualitative inqu	1
Legal consciousness of psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals: Awareness and satisfaction	1
A register-based comparison study of Swedish patients in forensic psychiatric care 2010 and 2018	1
Cognition in older offenders in North Rhine-Westphalia: A comparison of prisoners and patients in forensic psychiatry hospitals	1
The effects of forensic mental health reports on decisions about guilt in the Netherlands: An experimental approach	1
Editorial Board	1
Juror decision-making in cases of rape involving high functioning Autistic persons	1
No man's land: Troubling the borders of mental health and capacity law	1
Legal capacity, developmental capacity, and impaired mental capacity in children under 16: Neurodevelopment and the law in Northern Ireland	1
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization	1
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Law in the State of Qatar	1
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations	1
Patterns of victimization in Ghana's Senior Correctional Center: The experiences of juvenile offenders	1
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework	1
Association between perceived coercion and perceived level of information in involuntarily admitted patients: Results from a multicenter observational study in Switzerland	1
Adult safeguarding legislation: Navigating the borderlands between mental capacity, mental health and social care law and practice	1
Utilising survey data and qualitative information to inform a logic model to support older people in custody with common mental and physical health problems: Addressing the physical and mental health	1
The association between objective necessity for involuntary treatment as measured during admission, legal admission status and clinical factors in an inpatient psychiatry setting	1
The debate about physician assisted suicide and euthanasia in Ireland – Implications for psychiatry	1